Practice Areas & Industries: Lawson Lundell LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

The Lawson Lundell tax team is one of BC’s strongest tax groups. Our tax team provides creative yet practical tax advice to a wide range of clients including public and private companies, private equity funds, partnerships, pension funds, investment advisors, governmental entities, owner-managed businesses and high net worth individuals

Tax considerations are key drivers to many business decisions and transactions. Our tax team can provide you with the advice that you need to make those decisions.

Services Available

Business Taxation

We have expertise in all areas of business taxation, including income tax, sales tax, GST, property tax and resource taxation. We regularly advise on the tax aspects and tax structuring of business acquisitions and divestments, private equity fund investments, corporate reorganizations, public securities offerings and commercial lending transactions. Our innovative team of tax lawyers has developed highly sophisticated tax plans for a variety of significant transactions.

When necessary, we also represent our clients in resolving tax disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency, in conducting property tax appeals and in tax litigation.

Property Tax

We have extensive experience helping clients structure their affairs to minimize property tax, negotiating property tax assessments with BC Assessment and with taxing jurisdictions, appealing assessments to the Board and British Columbia Courts where necessary, and negotiating property tax related issues with taxing jurisdictions and the Province of B.C.

Our property tax lawyers have extensive experience in all aspects of property assessment and taxation law, practice and policy, advising all manner of clients including commercial clients (utility companies, real estate holding and development companies, golf clubs, commercial mall anchor tenants, small businesses), industrial clients (smelters, mines, forestry companies, pulp and paper mills, bulk terminals, barge loading facilities) and individuals.

Our property tax lawyers also have extensive experience in other taxation and valuation-focussed matters including expropriation compensation actions; commercial lease rent review and renewal arbitration and appeals of social service tax assessments, mineral tax assessments, and property transfer tax assessments.

For more information, please contact:

Reinhold G. Krahn at rkrahn@lawsonlundell.com or (604) 631.9174